Word: annes
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Coincidence. Washington and London squirmed but kept silent. Scarcely anyone noticed the remarkable coincidence of dates between the police action at Khabarovsk and the opening-and mysterious dismissal-of the New York trial of Soviet Spies Aleksandr Sokolov and "Joy Ann Baltch" (see THE LAW). There were many other theories as to what had happened: local police had been overzealous; Moscow had deliberately trapped the diplomats; the Russians had found a new way to destroy effective agents-publicity and ridicule...
Names & Addresses. Sokolov and his accomplice, known variously as "Joy Ann Garber" and "Joy Ann Baltch," were nabbed by FBI agents in Washington in July 1963, charged with passing on to Moscow information about U.S. missile bases, troop movements and harbor defenses. In the $90-a-month Washington apartment where Sokolov and the woman lived, agents found the tools of the trade - short-wave radio equipment, cameras, film and electronic listening devices. Sokolov and Joy Ann faced a possible death penalty...
...more bizarre, explanation. At least 75 U.S. counterintelligence agents had done undercover work to help crack the Sokolov operation. Their testimony would be the core of the Government's case. Then, early last week, Attorney Edward Brodsky, appointed by the court to defend Sokolov and Joy Ann, dusted off a U.S. statute passed in 1795, which provides that the Government must reveal the "abode" of any witness in the federal trial of persons charged with a capital offense. Brodsky demanded and got a list of the names and home addresses of all 75 agents. The dilemma was obvious...
...Mystification & Futility." At week's end Sokolov and Joy Ann were still being held by U.S. authorities, but this time they were awaiting deportation proceedings. Said Judge Dooling as he dismissed the jury: "Your first sense of this must be a mixture of mystification and the futility of our week's work together. Neither you nor I can know with what complexities our Government has had to deal, and deal responsibly...
Born. To Mary Ann Fischer, 31, mother of the first U.S. quintuplets to survive infancy; and Andrew Fischer, 39, Aberdeen, S. Dak., shipping clerk: their eleventh child, ninth daughter: in Aberdeen. Weight...